Family-Based Peer Learning Model
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Description
Copied from a slide presentation by David Ellerman:
- Horizontal Learning in Social Work
- Family Independence Initiative (FII), founded by Maurice Lim Miller, uses peer-to-peer learning instead of traditional vertical social worker-client relation.
- FII works with a family if they bring in a natural community (e.g., ethnic or church-related) of six to eight other families to form a peer-support group.
- Families in group are encouraged to undertake and document any of 50+ activities to help themselves in return for small monetary incentives (what would otherwise be paid to a social worker).
- When a family succeeds, say to buy a home or send a child to college, then other families know they could do it too with help from those who already did it.